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A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

No two persons ever read the same book.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.

I don't write the same book twice.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.